My family is going to freak the fuck out.

HERESY!

What? Who are you to deny that my great uncle "Cxtmyrq" existed? That's a triple word, triple letter, use all my tiles, win the game move, motherfucker!

This is so wrong it isn't even funny.

I urge everyone to call their parents and loved ones to console them.

Heard this on NPR this morning, so sad...

Heresy, but truth be told they've been doing it for years. WTF Zaire is a legitimate word. It would have been more interesting if they merged the NSA and "family" lists and we could have start using words like "lez" and "wog" at home LOL. For a great read find Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis

I thought it was bad when they started making the tiles out of plastic. Now this?! What happens to the Official Scrabble Dictionary? Multi-volume set filled with baby names and podunk townships?

This is horseshit of the highest fucking order. It's either a terrible (and late) April Fool's joke, or Mattel has bowed to an unholy alliance of "brand revitalizing" consultants and idiots who send angry emails when they learn they can't play "Zen."

My prediction/hope: this is a marketing ploy. This is Mattel trying to pull a "New Coke" on us. Get the Scrabble fans excited/upset and watch the (now alert and attentive) consumers breath a sigh of relief when they make an about face.

I'm fine with this. I embrace change.

I'm sort of untroubled by this. I can still play the way I want to, and maybe it will make it easier/more fun for the people who AREN'T up in arms about this news to play the game. I've always felt like an asshole when forced to use the phrase "you can't play that, it's a proper noun," because usually I'm talking to like my grandma or someone who is not a word person to begin with.

THIS IS BULLSHIT

I really want to be angry over this. But hey... You can still play Scrabble Prime if you really want to.

I will not abide by product placements in my Scrabble game. Eff this.

All is well everyone. It's a PR ploy.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20001840…

Stupid. Who decides what place names go in the word list? Is an American place name from a foreign language acceptable? This opens the door for all kinds of bullshit.

update: my family has freaked the fuck out.

"Mattel has since confirmed that the new version will in fact be called Scrabble Trickster."

More like "Scrabble Butthole."

Eh. Not too troubled by this. Most Scrabble novices play fast and loose with the rules anyway, or make up their own along the way.

The bigger issue is how to handle the changing tides of language, new terms, ensconced slang, etc., and incorporate them into a holy Scrabble dictionary. I think the current, official Scrabble dictionary is lacking.

The other side of the coin is almost anything you think is a word probably is if you look it up on the internetz. And nothing's worse than playing someone who's constantly looking up words on their Blackberry.

I like the plastic tiles. My Scrabble Diamond Edition has been a godsend for my Saturday coffee shop matches.

@ Joneser: Or Scrabble Napster?

TWL all the way and I refuse to budge. You can play dirty words at home, just get the TWL (tournament word list). I have an electronic copy if anyone needs one.

ISC, the gold standard for online play, surely will not have anything to do with this nonsense.

Fucking ridiculous.

i was going to figure out a place that has 8 letters and has an x and a z and maybe a q, and an s to add to already existing word on the board so that it covers the triple work score, and gets you the 50 pt bonus for clearing the deck, and the added points of the word you put the s onto, and any other additional bonus areas picked up along the way. it would be worth, like, jesus... a whole shitload. that'd be cool.

except for the fact that i'm too lazy to do all that.

mattel = morans